quaddition

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quaddition (uncountable)

  1. (philosophy) An operation that is the same as addition unless one of its operands is 57 or greater, in which case it always yields 5; used by Saul Kripke in an argument against Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations.
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